NOMINATIONS
send us your nominations for anyone
who does a very good job singing the National Anthem!
send to wgaffey@pa.net

Note: Indiana state Sen. Vaneta Becker, R-Evansville,
introduced a bill that would set "performance standards" for singing and
playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at events sponsored by public schools and
state universities. The guidelines would require the national anthem to be
performed "the way that we normally have it sung or heard throughout most of
our state and our country," and the bill would call for fines for those who
don't comply. Schools would be required to record performances and save them
for review.
(
Star Press, 1/4/12)

3-March 25, 2000. Laura Dillaman -the Saegertown "Panthers"
played Pottstown Nativity in the State Class A Girl's Championship Game
at Hersheypark Arena. When the scheduled singer for the National Anthem
before the game was a "no show," #44 Laura Dillaman a starter and senior
for Saegertown stepped in and sang!

4-Talyse Hampton, a senior at Wells College.
She delivered an outstanding rendition on November 16, 2008 at Cornell
University
prior to the Wells College vs Penn State Harrisburg Division III basketball
game. Along with singing the anthem at the game, she also videotaped
the game. She was a former contestant in the American Idol
competition. She plans to do her graduate work at UCLA.
(Credit: Tom Prystal)

5-Tori Gaffey, age 8 did
a great job in singing the National Anthem at the December 7, 2008
Division III college basketball game between Penn State Harrisburg and SUNY-IT.
She is a big fan of American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and Hannah
Montana. In 2015, at age 14 she sang the National Anthym at the St.
Bonaventure basketball gamein February.

Congratulations to all the others which were considered.

2011 Nomination: Aury Krebs,
2/14/11 Aury Krebs, a junior at Jenkintown High School has sung the anthem for
us at almost every football and basketball game since I began working here
in 2008. She is absolutely brilliant and has also had lead roles in all of
our school’s musical productions. After each of her performances, referees,
opposing players and coaches make it a point to tell her what a wonderful
job she did. (Nominated by Mark Citron)

2011 Nomination: John Vincent,
12/10/10John does a beautiful job singing the National anthem. It will give you
goosebumps. He has sung the anthem for the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bulls,
and Chicago Bears, and the Green Bay Packers. You can see a video on you
tube...excellent! At Wrighley Field:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Wnk4s6b20
(Nominated by Lisa Guilfoyle)

The Star-Spangled Banner is the
national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from a poem
written in 1814 by
Francis Scott Key,after seeing the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore,
Maryland during the War of 1812.
The poem was set to the tune of a popular
British drinking song, "The
Anacreontic Song" - it would soon become a well-known American patriotic
song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being
difficult to sing.(Credit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner)